After the last set of setbacks on the boy front, my mother
re-petitioned to join the cause. So I figured, what the hell, how bad could it get.
I didn’t think she was taking her new role very seriously, it had been weeks
and I hadn’t heard anything. I wasn’t too upset.
But what I didn’t realize is that she was so sly about it, the evil
plotting had begun. I was clueless. A week ago in the middle of an evening in
front of the TV, while she is complaining about how I should be cleaning my room
she throws in, don’t you think its time to take down some of the excessively
intimate pictures with your EX from Facebook. I brush this of as random mother
worry that I may still go and look at these pictures and reminisce. But a week
later when she says there’s this boy I found and you can go check out his Facebook
profile. All the pieces of the puzzle
fall into place. This boy has one profile picture, mom says he’s 6'2". How had
my mother found this boy?? She had enlisted the help of some discreet
matchmaker. What were her search criteria? Well she had asked how tall I was, apparently
5'5" is pretty tall for a girl. It was going to be hard to find a boy tall
enough for me.(PAUSE TO LAUGH). Anyone who knows me knows height has never been
an issue. (no I never dated a midget but some boys have come close)
My own checklist is this:
1.
They must be funny.
2.
They must smell good.
3.
They must read. (not talking about literacy
here)
4.
They must not be a jobless bum.
5.
And the recently added to list requirement of must not be in love with ex-girlfriend. (you know why)
This isn’t tailor made for me, it’s probably what any woman’s
basic checklist looks like, but finding a man that fit these criteria is
surprisingly difficult. This list was a response to a lot of trial and error. I
didn’t always have a list in fact as far back as I can remember I had only one
rule of thumb, you could tell if a man was for you when you kissed him. If there
was a spark, a piece of electricity when two people were close, something
unexplained that left you light headed, butterflies in your stomach then the
deal was closed.
As you can imagine this rule makes a hunt for a man very
interesting and extremely fun. It’s not
the best and most practical rule but a man can check all the boxes, could also
have all the extra customization features of cooking, dancing, gardening,
travelling, serenade and likes dogs but if there is no chemistry there is
nothing to speak of. And just chemistry, is a bad idea. It’s how I ended up
with my college boyfriend. Opposites attract and how. We had so little in
common but when he held my hand I thought I was going to die, every single
time. The first time we kissed, we were
in a dingy boys hostel room in the middle of a lunch break. I have no
explanation as to how we made that work for as long as it did other than the
kissing was great.
Anyway, that was eons ago, I was young and foolish. Not that I’m much older and wiser now. In fact
I don’t think I’m any closer to figuring out what I want. But lately I feel
like the universe is helping me answer questions about what I need. It’s given
me chances to explore men I thought were a sure shot, and shown me how far from
good they actually were for me. It’s shown me boys I liked that didn’t like me
back. And it’s shown me boys that’s
liked me that I didn’t like back. There have been deal breakers and questions
about what that actually is.
I just hope I know what I’m looking for and I hope I
recognize it when I find it.
Will he be someone like you?
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